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Her eyes flicked over to Bjorn’s empty chair without her even wanting them to. She didn’t know where he was, or what he’d been doing for the past two weeks; he’d been at all the other Council meetings, just not this one. Ari told herself that she really shouldn’t care, but being apart from him was starting to take its toll, in more ways that she truly cared to consider. And even if she was struggling to accept how much it was affecting her, it was difficult to ignore her irritability.
“Alden, have you had any progress?” she asked with a sigh. Every time she brought up the necromancer problem, he just waved it off as something he was working on. She almost wished that she’d taken it on herself, but her case load at work was already stacking up, she didn’t need to add to that. There’d se
